[The Stage is on Fire] is a page-turner in which, much like life, there are no easy answers and yet each step of the journey yields insight and hope. This work of heart must not be missed!
Melanie Faith
Creative Writing Teacher, Essayist & Poet.
Katie Steedly’s first-person piece [The Unspeakable Gift] is a riveting retelling of her participation in a National Institutes of Health study that aided her quest to come to grips with her life of living with a rare genetic disorder. Her writing is superb.
The Society of Professional Journalists
In recognition of receiving the Dateline Award for the Washingtonian Magazine essay, The Unspeakable Gift.
I thank you … It is the authenticity of your “class notes”; and it is the delicacy and skill with which you present the nuances of classroom life and the actuality of your students’ and fellow teachers’ lives.
Maxine Greene
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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Unfinished night
I love the untidy crowds in the streets, the idea of a night not finished
Colm Tóibín
A few years ago I was introduced to Katherine Mays, Wintering. In it, she talks about wintering as state of valuable rest. A night not finished feels like it could happen while wintering. A night not finished where we hold our shadows close. A night not finished where we comfort the parts of ourselves that have never been fully comforted (our untidy internal crowds). A night not finished where we intentionally and gently breathe, balance, and find center.
It needs to be said that a night not finished never ends, it simply ebbs and flows, waxes and wanes, falls apart and back together. We never run out of time during an unfinished night. There is time There is time enough for messy, complicated, difficult multitudes. There is time enough to rest and begin again. There is time enough for moving through all that is.
About Katie
From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
Buy the Book!
The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
